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Life thriving in boiling deep-sea acid.
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• Footage courtesy: EVNautilus — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0sqZ92qoA
• Footage courtesy: RCSBProteinDataBank — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk14dOOvwMk
• Footage courtesy: Natural World Facts (@NaturalWorldFacts) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECBbAjoEHWI

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00:00Boiling water blasts directly out of the deep ocean floor above 80 degrees Celsius.
00:05The single-celled organism, methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus,
00:10lives inside the scorching liquid, where normal proteins instantly melt apart.
00:16Instead of eating organic food, this microscopic survivor feeds strictly on pure hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide.
00:23Special enzymes convert those simple gases into cellular energy,
00:28letting the microbe build biological molecules inside boiling water.
00:33This extreme heat-loving survivor proves life thrives where boiling water blasts directly out of the deep ocean floor.
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